Hrag Vartanian is editor-at-large, founding editor, and co-founder of Hyperallergic.
Art
Walking or driving around Miami's Wynwood neighborhood, you're immediately struck by the great volume of art all around, most noticeably on the wall. Some of the work is illegal but others are sanctioned through the efforts of Primary Flight, an organization which descibes itself as "Miami's origina
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News
If you thought the march of street art into the American museum world was going to be easy, think again. LA's MOCA museum is gearing up for their much trumpeted Art in the Street exhibition that will take place next year and feature lots and lots of street art, but yesterday the Museum that commissi
News
The Brooklyn Museum has posted an archive of its 1st Fans Twitter art [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/support/1stfans_twitter_art_feed.php]. The Twitter Art Feed was a benefit for @brooklynmuseum [http://twitter.com/brooklynmuseum]'s 1stfans (formerly @1stfans) members from December 2008 to December
Opinion
I can't remember the last time so many bold faced art names were on mainstream television. Last night, Stephen Colbert tried to convince well-known art collector Steve Martin to buy his René Magritte-like portrait but it wasn't an easy sell. Colbert soon marched on some major artists to make it more
Interview
David C. Ward is co-curator of the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture [http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/exhhide.html] exhibition, which has become a lightning rod for right-wing attacks on the federally funded Smithsonian institution. The show is the fi
Art
Brooklyn-based artist Jacob Krupnick had the opportunity to spend the day after the Art Basel Miami Beach fair closed inside the convention center dodging forklifts and documenting the breakdown of the fair [http://portfolio.jacobkrupnick.com/#842578/After-The-Art-Fair]. "It's that rare moment when
Opinion
Rob Maguire, who is the founder and editor of Art Threat [http://artthreat.net/], a Canadian blog devoted to exploring political art and showcasing artists whose work inspires social change, hurled out this nugget during a recent online "water cooler" hosted by The National Post newspaper about art
Opinion
In the West, culture is at risk of being a form of entertainment -- exiled Iranian artist Shirin Neshat #TEDWomen [http://twitter.com/search?q=%23TEDWomen]less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/anxiaostudio/statuses/12623138495930369] via Twitter for BlackBerry® [http://blackberry.com/twitter][h
Opinion
An Australian internet activist named Julian Assange (bio [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange]) exposes top secret American diplomacy on an international website. He's profiled last June in The New Yorker by Raffi Khatchadourian, photographed by Phillip Toledano [http://hyperallergic.tumblr
Opinion
We're collecting reactions to last week's #Rank [http://www.facebook.com/pages/HashtagRank/172812192730772?v=info] event at the Seven Art Fair. Did you attend? Lead an event? Stumble upon it? Watch the livestream or follow it via Twitter? Which ever way you noticed it or tuned in, I want you to shar
News
Two activists were detained by police on Saturday at the National Portrait Gallery after showing David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" on an iPad inside the museum. Both activists were ejected and subsequently banned for life from any Smithsonian Institution facility. D.C. residents Mike Blasens
Opinion
Sure they love the money, but not all Miamians are kumbaya about the alien spacecraft that is the art fairs and its annual landing in South Beach. The Miami New Times has a hilarious list of why they are glad the fairs are over [http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/12/50_reasons_were_glad_art